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[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 35 points 8 months ago

Tens of millions of dollars of damage caused by lighting one single electricity pole on fire? I don't support destroying public property but that is amazing bang for your buck!

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

They did say it was a nine-figure electric pole… premium German engineering ;-)

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 19 points 8 months ago

They used the word "pylon" in the article, which I assumed (only) meant it was wooden. Turns out I was wrong, but now I'm struggling to imagine how one can light this

on fire.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago
[-] sramder@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

That would avoid the use of fossil fuels :-)

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah… I guess people have tossed chains on other high voltage installations to cause self-destruction. We might be talking ”burned” a bit to literally?

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